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Contents 1 Scripts / Programs 2 Improvements to Perl Critic 3 VIM Projects 4 Perldoc 5 PerlTV 6 Cpan Scripts 7 Game of Golf anyone ? 8 Win32 Perl 9 Modules 10 Other scripting languages

Scripts / Programs

• Microsoft The Scripting Games
  • http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/games/default.mspx
  • Microsoft has some Perl solutions for their games.
  • Problem is that some of them look like they were coded by a visual basic programmer who just learnt Perl, rather than a Perl programmer.
  • Can we do any better?

• Big Brother - A program to ease the process of Time logging
  • Status : 25% cobbled together
  • Here's the Perldoc Perldoc BB ....

• upload - simple ftp client program to upload files based on modification date or name
  • No code just an idea !!
  • A one line command I can run from Vim

Improvements to Perl Critic

Perl best practice is a great book but some of the techniques have caused me problems and sometimes my platform does not have the required modules.

• Create a Perl Critic that everyone should be using
  • Better checking for version control systems
  • Parameters for types of help Getopt::Std or Getopt::Euclid

VIM Projects

• Improvements to VIM-Support
  • Templates with more stuff
    • Pass improved perl critic
    • Perldoc and help stubs
  • add shortcuts to menu items
  • add code complete
  • Add code complete Devel::PerlySense,
  • Add Perldoc script and syntax from other vim script
  • More standard snippets & better access?

Perldoc

• Perl one liners

"Proper documentation" of Perl one liners in pod i.e convert the following to Perldoc including win32 isms for those unfortunate souls.

• • http://sial.org/howto/perl/one-liner/
  • http://www.unixguide.net/unix/perl_oneliners.shtml
  • Create cookbook with more examples;
    • recursive find
    • recursive search and replace
    • extract data from searching in web logs

PerlTV

• Create PerlTV tutorials
• Create PerlTV Presentation templates
• Create PerlTV outside broadcasting kit
• Text2S5 Converts a "beyond bullet points" out line to a S5 HTML presentation
  • Just add images for a presenation
  • http://www.sociablemedia.com/book/makeover/livemeeting/atkinson_livemeeting_may12_05.doc
  • http://www.netzgesta.de/S5/

Cpan Scripts

Perl module archive is world class.

• Is there anything we can do to crate a world class repository for scripts?
• Can we improve on this?
• http://www.cpan.org/scripts/index.html
• How about a new top level naming convention?

Game of Golf anyone ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Golf_Apocalypse - update the wiki page

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=592386

http://perlgolf.sourceforge.net/:

Win32 Perl

Help the win32 Perl port effort

• http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vanilla_Perl_Problem_Modules

Modules

• Testing
• GUI libraries
• DBI
• PUGS/Parrot

Other scripting languages

• Create PerlTV tutorials JQuery